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Hi, i'm new here but i've been trying to get this sorted for a while actually. Basically i'm working on a project which requires transcoding a live stream from an external source (http server) but for some reason even though vlc will play the stream fine it refuses to transcode the video.

I've tried on linux with 1.0.5 and the latest nightly build, also tried the windows version as well but to no avail. Some versions present different issues but the nightly build produces no errors on the command line, i've linked to a dumped copy of the stream below which has the same issues as the live stream. If anyone can figure out how to sort this then i'm more than willing to donate what i can afford towards the project

Just FYI im hoping to recode the stream into an MP4/H264/ACC Stream.

http://homepages.shu.ac.uk/~a9012142/vl ... sample.sdp

Thanks,
Andy

Most Linux distros don't include H264 encoding. As for ACC, you probably mean AAC. VLC does not support AAC encoding at all, since there are no good open-source encoders for it.

Sorry, yes i mean AAC. I have all the restricted ffmpeg codecs and my VLC is compiled from source with support for both H264 and AAC. It will encode most files in the format without any issue, its just this one source which I cant get to work

I have no issues converting other videos at all, it appears to be related to the source because i'm getting the same result whatever format i try to convert the video to.